Pakistan’s government says its investigation shows that police had orchestrated the killing of a doctor accused of blasphemy while he was held in custody last week. The interior minister in Sindh province says officers then lied about the circumstances of the man's death, claiming he was killed in a shootout between police and armed men.
Family of Shah Nawaz, a doctor who was accused of blasphemy, from left, mother Rehmat Kunbhar, wife Niamat Bibi, and daughter Hareem Nawaz, speak to media at their residence in Umerkot, a district in the Pakistan ’s Sindh province, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.
According to the provincial interior minister, Ziaul Hassan, a government probe concluded that Nawaz was killed shortly after he gave himself up to authorities in what was a staged “fake encounter” engineered by the security forces.Pakistani Taliban deny attacking a convoy of foreign ambassadors “We have only one demand: those police officers who staged the killing of my son ... must also be killed in the same manner,” said Nawaz’s father, Mohammad Saleh.
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